The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-13
Paine than Ike the rich men OF the

overreaching, but who almost invara-
bly, keep up the Accomplishments OF So
cicty, and will Join in contributions even
against their will for public necessities
Stephen Girard, it is related, would
20 out to his farm-gate while he was a
banker and sell apples to persons pass
ing by on Sundays. Yet with all his
greed for money and carelessness Of
dress, he had a phlanthropic DISPOSE
ton, and curiously enough he did not
draw Il from the doctrines of Christ,
but from the French philosophers of the
eighteenth century, of whom he was q
pupil
The same old man who named his
ships the Rousseau, the Voltaire and
the Helvotius sustains upon his bequets
at this moment some two hundred
orphans, and their college has an in
come of $50. 900 year.
The old bankers and lawyers about
Boston in the period before and follow
ing the Revolution were often cranks.
and several of them did not know
which way to turn when the contest
with Britain broke out, for fear their
clientage would 60 away
One of the oldest fish Massachusetts
produced contemporary with the
Paines described above was Elbridge
Gerry, who became the fifth Vice
President of the United States, and
whose posterity or family namssakes
reside in this city, intermarried with
some OF the richest people. The
Goelets here, who stand among the
highest real estate people in the New
World, have connections with this
Gerry family. Old Elbridge Gerry,
who graduated at Harvard College,
and figured in the Revolutionary War
as committeeman. Congressman,
&C., was as eccentric as Jobs hat-band.
After he participated in making the
constitution he refused to sign it. The
Jelersonans, who had but scant sup
port in Massachusetts,, found him one
of the few persons to make use OF, and
they sent him to France to prevent
war with that country, which never
theless was declared by the United
States. The opponents of the war ran
him for Governor of Massachusetts
twice. and he was the Ben Butler OF
that early period in 1898 and 1901.
After tremendous contest he was
elected Governor in 1910, twelve years
after he started in. and was reelected
the second year. This made him Vice
President of the I'm ted States, and he
died during his term of office in 1872
while riding to the Capitol You can
find his monument near that OF George
Clinton in the old Congressional Gene
terry. Gerry was habitually suspicious.
He was one of the wealthest men in
our public affairs, having inherited his
money or got it by marriage or early
business.
In spite of his avarice he ultimately
lost every thing he had by indorsing
for some other person, and this emblt-
tered his days. When he was Govern
or of the State it is related that no per-
son called upon him whom the old fell
low would trust. He received every
suggestion as If it emanated from the
devil and had a malicious and personal
purpose in it. This original mugwump,
whose PROSPERITY has just come to light
is hardly recognizable name to the
American school-boy or gray-haired
man, so speedily do men fade out OF
sight Il they have not been in the chan
mel of things and of broad tempera-
ments. - Cincinnati Enquirer.